Table 1. Intensity (M%), frequency (F%) of fungal colonization and arbuscules abundance (A%) in the roots of mycorrhized Medicago truncatula.
wpi | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 8 |
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M% | 86 ± 4a | 86 ± 5a | 80 ± 5ab | 86 ± 5a | 80 ± 11ab | 72 ± 11b |
F% | 100 ± 0a | 99 ± 13a | 96 ± 13a | 98 ± 14a | 99 ± 1a | 99 ± 1a |
A% | 56 ± 3ab | 59 ± 9a | 50 ± 9ab | 49 ± 6ab | 42 ± 15bc | 28 ± 4c |
The data are means of four plants ± SD. Values with different letters in each row are significantly different from each other according to one-way ANOVA followed by Student-Newman-Keuls test (P<0.05). wpi, weeks post inoculation.